The Marine Museum at Fall River is a cultural gem and contains a wealth of Fall River Maritime History especially Steam Ship and Titanic memorabilia. Discover the art, books, models and many treasures the Marine Museum holds. This is a must see
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The Marine Museum at Fall River is a cultural gem and contains a wealth of Fall River Maritime History especially Steam Ship and Titanic memorabilia. Discover the art, books, models and many treasures the Marine Museum holds. This is a must see resource for landlubbers and mariners alike.

Carol Gafford is a public librarian, family historian, amateur archivist and book savior. She is currently the youth services/outreach librarian at the Swansea Public Library and volunteers for several museum and historical societies including the Marine Museum at Fall River, the Swansea Historical Society and the Bristol Historical and Preservation society. She is the editor of Past Times, the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists and is always looking for a new project to take on.

After a devastating loss to Juan Martin del Potro in the championship of the 2009 U.S. Open, Roger Federer sure has the Argentine’s number of late.

Federer took del Potro to school this weekend in the finals of the ABN AMRO tournament in the Netherlands. With the win, Federer secured his first title of the young year.

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Del Potro had his chances to break early but could not convert. All of a sudden, he had lost the first set 6-1. The next set was closer, at 6-4, but Federer still had a straight sets win.

It was nice to see Federer playing with a little more emotional fire than he usually does. He let out an “Allez!” at times when I wasn’t expecting one. This did seem to help him, and del Potro couldn’t match that passion on this day.

It was especially impressive that Federer could dismantle #10 del Potro since he had just dismantled his semifinal round opponent, #7 Tomas Berdych. And Federer had to work a lot harder in his semifinal against the scrappy Nikolay Davydenko. Federer came from behind in that one after dropping the first set.

The 6’6” del Potro does not appear to scare Federer in the slightest at this point. In this last match and in Federer’s dominating straight sets win over del Potro in the Australian Open, Roger did a good job of keeping the ball low, keeping the Argentine off balance and mixing up his shots. And throughout this most recent tournament, Federer was serving very well, too.